JUNE 2020 ISSUE

What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time, the big issues facing Traverse City as the summer season approached were low unemployment rates and the resulting labor shortage at local hotels...

I have the honor of owning a 1915 Ford Model T that was delivered new that year to its first owner in Traverse City. It is painted black (the only color Ford offered back then) and it has the last of ...

As difficult at the COVID-19 crisis has been, there are many silver linings across the region from our great local business retooling to the army of volunteer mask makers. Close community collaboratio...

Promethient is ready to step into the spotlight. The Traverse City-based technology company, founded in 2012, has been working for years to develop and perfect its proprietary conductive heat transfer...

With the construction industry among those slowly reopening, the principals at Commongrounds are optimistic its mixed-use building will indeed become a reality sooner rather than later. “We are stil...

The northern Michigan regions are the first regions in Michigan to be granted broader permission to reopen businesses due to their low numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths, as compared with other Mich...

Looking back, it’s almost unbelievable that the idea worked: A specialty shop stocked with premium olive oils and vinegars, opening its doors in downtown Traverse City just as the global economy was...

Healthy Start Child Care has been providing much-needed day care for families in the Traverse City area for a quarter of a century. But the coronavirus epidemic, which prompted Gov. Gretchen Whitmer t...

Every week, Dennis Prout hops behind a microphone at WTCM in downtown Traverse City for New Retirement Radio, a one-hour program on NewsTalk 580 that’s made him a little bit famous. Undoubtedly a pi...